Is it not duplicacy of content?

Hi

What and how Google check for duplicate content? I have seen sites which have identical in content and some sites just republish the usenet data ..a re they not penalized from Google or is there some hidden arrangement?

For instance try to put any message on google technical programming groups and within a day or two it will identically appear on various forums website. Even with the original poster names and dates

examples : bytes.com / velocityreviews.com etc etc

Are these sites scraping Google content with permission ? or without permission?

If its by Google permission then what is the fuss about duplicate content and original content in adsense guides??

Are small publishers being penalized and bigger ones are not?

Akash

 

Not sure about it, but I guess the one who make duplicate content might have included the link to original source.

 

it's probably ok as long as it's not plagiarism.

 

But what is the difference between plagiarism and verbatim copy of the entire content of usenet groups?

I am asking this because its very easy to scrape the groups content and make a huge content website.. on the other hand we small publishers work a lot to create content...

So in my opinion its a bit unfair to us.. isn't it?

 

plagiarism is taking another one's content and having false guts to declare them as your own. so when copying content, make sure to cite sources and if possible, give credit to the original author.

it's probably not as unfair as you say so because i think google gives more credit to the original author - or that one that uploads the content first (but I may be wrong in this).

 

try to ask Google coz they are the only one who can give you the right answer.

 

If a website is older with more links pointing towards it, duplicate content or not, it will rank higher.

 

great tip! i'll keep that in mind.